I had an interesting experience a month or two ago. Coming from Daytona on my motorcycle, I decided to stop and get gas in Macon and noticed a Sam's Club off the exit. I thought it best to go in a pay my on my Discover card and walked up and told the sister that I was there to pay my dues. She looked and me and said, "Have you paid your tithes yet?" That's what it's like living in the Bible Belt. I pulled her over to the side and whispered a few words of wisdom in her ear. I told her that I was an Atheist and it might not be a good idea for her to ask people that at her job especially if she doesn't know them.

Back in December I went to the funeral of a friend's 16 year old daughter. There was a very large attendance including many high school kids that were given the day off to attend. There were at least 4 preachers who gave sermons. The funeral was 3 hours of proselytizing. At one point a preacher had everyone stand up, raise their right hand, repeat this long sinners prayer and vowed to accept Jesus as their savior. Of course I refused to stand along with just a handful of others. They all kept saying how great the girl was and how great God and Jesus is but all I could think the whole time is why they praise a God that would let a great young girl suffer so long with cancer? Why did she have to have a leg amputated and live with so much pain? They kept saying God only gives suffering to the strongest. Really? A 16 year old girl is the strongest? They kept referring to her as the Princess Warrior. They even had a huge blanket with her picture that said Princess Warrior. Several times I wanted to run out of there but I kept reminding myself that I was there to support my old friend. I hate it when they turn a funeral into a way too long church service.

We still continue giving credence to the false notion that we are inferior to our white counter paths, because we black people are of the devil's spawn and white people are the chosen children of God.

I've never met anyone who literally stated such a thing.

But if you translate "chosen children of God" into "came out better historically" this would be true in the sense that we tend to look down on the victims and the oppressed. Morality is aligned with power and money to some extent, and this is probably a basic part of human nature.

Greetings. I've been away preoccupied with other things the past couple months. I was at the March yesterday but arrived so late there's nothing I can say about it except that I got to shake hands with Martin Luther King III. Judging by the speakers and organizers, it was too tied to the Democratic Party, in a very different way than the civil rights leaders of 50 years ago had a movement behind them to force eventually the Democratic Party to do what had to be done,which turned out to be under LBJ rather than JFK. It would be much easier to discuss all the topics introduced here in the Discussion Forum, where each topic introduced gets its own continuous thread.

@ De Mush Doctor: I could not agree with more the late writer, William R. Jones, wrote a book titled is "God a White Racist?" In it he took the black clergy to task including so-called black liberation theology for promoting the concept of divine suffering as a way to redemption and freedom, a totally repellent doctrine that must be rejected if we are to free our minds.

Yes, these black negro preacher hustlers are so much responsible for the continuous brainwashing of the black youth of the day, by forcing them down to their knees to worship, glorify, exalt and give praises to their white slave master jesus christ.

Reason why black people can't move froward and progress into the twenty first century. We need to shed the psychological chains that still hold us captive in our minds.Emancipate ourselves from the stranglehold of white supremacy.

We still continue giving credence to the false notion that we are inferior to our white counter paths, because we black people are of the devil's spawn and white people are the chosen children of God.

Such ignorant goat herder's doctrines need to be eradicated from our children's minds before we are able to go forward in any capacity as black people..It's a horrible way to raise your children.